THE WORLD COURT.

Wairarapa Age, 11 February 1927, Page 3

THE WORLD COURT.

AMERICA TO STAY OUT. TROUBLE OVER RESERVATIONS. WASHINGTON, February 9. Britain and some of the other European Governments have made final replies to the United States proposal to enter the World Court with reservations. The replies amount substantially to rejection. The British answer follows generally the Geneva Conference’s counter-reservations to the Senate’s reservations, which President Coolidge and many Senators believe unacceptable. The Senate reservations would give the United States a veto power over any dispute presented to the Court in which the United States had or claimed to have an interest. The counter-reservations would give tho United States equal power with the Council members in relation to the Court, but whether the latter now have, a veto power is at present disputed. As President Coolidge has announeed that he will not reopen the subject if the Senate reservations to the World Court Protocol are not accepted without change, the United States apparently stands definitely outside the tribunal, since three foreign Governments have advised the State Department of their decision to ask for a modification of the reservations. On receipt of the formal notifications of Britain and two other nations, it was learned on Wednesday that the Senate is refusing, on the ground that it is unnecessary to take up a resolution proposing that the Senate’s ratification of the Protocol be rescinded'.— (A. and N.Z.)